Reading Time: 8 minutes Without fully functional mitochondria, your cells would have trouble using oxygen to release energy from food and regulating other processes. Here we explore factors that can compromise mitochondrial function and the significant impacts it could have on your health.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes We naturally lose muscle with age, but there are ways to fight this. Besides consuming adequate protein and performing resistance training, increasing your omega-3 fatty acid intake looks to provide benefits. Here we explore how…
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Reading Time: 10 minutes Telomere length can play a critical role not just in ageing, but a number of common diseases from cancer, to heart diseaase and depression. The nature of their role, and what tools we have to address it, is detailed here.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes While telomere shortening naturally occurs as we age, a genetic susceptibility and other dysfunctions to telomeres can have serious consequences for children. Here we look at the implications of telomere length extremes in the young.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of DNA strands that help in keeping chromosomes stable and mutation free. Their length can and does change, with important implications on health.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) Therapy may be a simple way to help people experiencing parkinson’s disease, brain injury, depression and a range of other ailments. Here’s what we know…
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Reading Time: 10 minutes Klotho is a protein which has become much lauded for its anti-aging properties. Deficiency has been linked to degenerative changes in tissues and systems throughout the body. It’s an exciting and relatively recent area of research, with emerging evidence getting us closer to understanding its precise role, the value of interventions to increase levels… and determining what may be the best- i.e. safest and most effective- way to do so.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes There has been a ground swell in the popularity of nicotinamide riboside supplements in recent times. Understandably so, for it is purported to have anti-aging properties. But does it actually work? How? Has our relentless search for the ‘fountain of youth’ finally borne fruit, in molecular form? Before we answer these and more questions, let’s go back to the basics…
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